Kelly Slater's Ulupalakua Surf Ranch on the way?
News broke overnight that Oprah Winfrey, very famous and worth some $2.7 billion, had purchased a “large chunk” of Maui for a reported $6.6 million. The plot of land, 870 acres in total near Kula, in the Valley Isle’s guts, formerly belonged to the Ulupalakua Ranch which specializes in elk hamburgers.
Wow.
As you certainly know, the media mogul owns property in Montecito, Chicago and Colorado, three places that don’t feature surf nor Albee Layer and her sudden interest in the birthplace of the Sport of Queens has surf enthusiasts wondering if her former acolyte, one Erik Logan, is in her ear.
Logan, the World Surf League’s current Chief of Executives, previously served as the Oprah Winfrey Network president and kicked the then-struggling television operation to great success. Coming over to the WSL, the Oklahoman was named head of studios, which promptly shuttered, and failed upstairs to the number one slot.
Winfrey’s new holding is exactly 12 miles from Jaws and 40-ish from Honolua Bay making it the perfect spot for an artificial wave facility.
Kelly Slater’s Ulupalakua Surf Ranch.
Rings, no?
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Yeah, I gentrified Hawaii from my living room couch on the other side of the planet.
Who hurt you
Hawaiians should revolt
Don’t you have that backwards?
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This fucking douchebag writes for The Inertia. Bleeding heart type https://valleypost.org/
On top of that, she thinks she can draw a comparison between herself and Gerry Lopez. Fuck off back to the Inertia and Vermont.
There goes the neighborhood.
shes a globalist pedohile. may she burn in hell
Crikey….now that’s a driveway….
So based on the $60 mil figure @ say $400 per cubic meter….= 15,000 cbm of conc.
Say the driveway is 4 meters wide and 120mm thick, it works out about 0.5 cbm of the grey stuff, per meter.
Therefore the driveway could potentially be 30,000 meters long which equals 18.641 miles or 30k’s long….
Subtract labour, reo, machinery and prep work etc. guess 20% of total cost, you could comfortably say the driveway is 14.91 miles or 24k’s long…..
WSL…..World Screed League
Its not a driveway, its a short cut road down into Kehei so they don’t have to drive all the way round through Kahului to get to south shore.
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Still waiting for my TDOV breakdown
That fat pig should be in jail with Weinstein
Child trafficker…
Black elephant. White hunter.
A tradie I work with from Maui said when they poured a 60 million dollar drive way for her estate you could not get a truck of of concrete anywhere on Maui for a month.
I can only imagine all the fun Oprah and her QAnon buddies are going to have here.
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Great thread here about how welcoming some Maui Residents are:
https://forum.surfer.com/in…
Many angles of relevant shade thrown here, well played.
michaelangelo’s david from a delta angle. re: the days when we called surf groupie wannabee’s but-men?
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Montecito almost got wiped off the map from 40+ inches of rain…Chicago is all about gangs, gunfire, and corruption…Colorado is super-lib but facing a Christian resurgence…
“Yeah, Mama O. Maui never sees anything like that!”
She has lived in Hawaii since the 90’s. She started on kauai .
870 acres on Maui for 6.6 million is incredibly cheap.
Maybe it’s farmland that can’t be built on?
Definitely is zoned for agriculture, she own a hundred acres next to it though so it just become a massive estate with some cows wandering around .
She scored .
I’m jealous
I was wondering the same?
That’s cheap, did she buy flood land?
No its actually in a really dry zone of the island
Maybe ELo can find a fixer upper in Kahakuloa Village so they can be distant neighbors.
Bring a shovel.